Johann Baptist von Spix

Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix was a German biologist. From his expedition to Brazil, he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. They constitute an important basis for today's National Zoological Collection in Munich. Numerous examples of his ethnographic collections, such as dance masks and the like, are now part of the collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Munich.

9 February 1781

Born on the same birth day (9 February): Callistus Ndlovu • Camille Winbush • Hara Takashi • Harald Eia • Jason Winston George • Kathryn Grayson • Major Harris (singer) • Vasily Zhukovsky

Born in the same month (February 1781): John Keane, 1st Baron Keane • René Laennec